Looking to buy a 6800GT card for another 12-18 months of gaming, before doing a major upgrade (new mobo/cpu/memory/gfx card).

Will my system be able to take advantage of the 6800gt or will it be bottlenecked? In which case which Nvidia card would give me the best gaming experience? I have a 19" TFT 1280 x 1024, and would love to play games with all details turned up and at a highest res as poss.

Had a few forum discussions about this already, but seem to be getting mixed views... Just about to fork out £200 so wanted a second opinion... maybe I should run a poll!

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you will be fine coming from a former owner of a 6800GT. sold it to my mate who has it in his AMD barton system so that P4 will be fine.
bearing in mind running at that Res it not all to do with the GPU with an emphasis on CPU but for the most part you will be fine.

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Thanks for the replies - I did consider a 6600GT, I have one in my other pc (HTPC) but thought the 6800GT would give me some extra fps for gaming? Just wondered if the rest of my system would bottleneck it.... think I will go for the 6800GT, any particular makes I should choose/avoid?

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Ok, thanks - looks like a good card, can only find one UK based supplier with stock and it is £100 more expensive than other 6800GT's I may make some enquiries and see if I can get it shipped from the US....
lisa